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Intec CEMS Wins Best New Product Award at Billing and OSS World

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Intec Centralized Error Management System (Intec CEMS) was named “Best New Product” by US-based TeleStrategies as part of the Billing & OSS World 2006 Excellence Awards, which recognise the best vendors in the billing and operations support system ( OSS ) segment of the telecommunications industry.

Ed Finegold, Billing World & OSS Today editor-in-chief, said, “There were more than 100 submissions for the Excellence Awards this year. Intec CEMS was chosen to win the award for best new product due to its practicality for all types of carriers and its ability to impact and improve the bottom line, particularly for carriers undergoing significant change and consolidation with their large IT environments.”

This new product from Intec, which is already in volume production at a major US carrier, has also been shortlisted for two awards at the forthcoming World Billing Awards in London , June 8. Using Intec CEMS, service providers can cut revenue losses by dramatically reducing error volumes, lowering the costs of managing errors, and recovering revenue from unbilled usage and service order errors. Intec has also been shortlisted for a third World Billing Award for its mediation solution under “Best Billing Implementation”. [Read more…]

Openet Appoints Apollo Guy as Vice President of Sales for Americas

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Openet Telecom, a world leader in real-time charging, advanced mediation, and network-edge rating, today announced that Apollo Guy has been appointed Vice President of Sales for the Americas. Apollo is responsible for sales of Openet’s product and professional services, both direct and indirect, in North America, Central America and Latin America.

“I am excited in joining Openet at the cusp of IMS taking hold. Openet’s product suite provides proven and scalable solutions in a marketplace that is fast converging”, commented Guy. “Openet is playing a leadership position in changing the old commodity role of rating, charging, and mediation in the evolving communications sector, and redefining the concept of real-time performance”, added Guy.

Apollo joins Openet from CSG Systems, which acquired Telution, where he served as Vice President and General Manager, Broadband and Telco Business Unit. Prior to that, Apollo was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Lemur Networks. Apollo has over 20 years experience in the Telecommunications and Cable industries focused on finance, sales, marketing, business development and technologies, working for Rogers Cablesystems, Bell Canada, and Futureway Communications. [Read more…]

Berg Insight: Shipments of Handset Based Personal Navigation to Reach 12 Million by 2009

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A new research report from the analysis firm Berg Insight forecasts that shipments of handset based personal navigation solutions in Europe and the US will reach 12 million units by 2009. The year 2005 marked the first successful marriage of cellular and navigation technologies, resulting in shipments of around 1 million on-board and off-board systems, mainly in the fourth quarter. Supported by the phenomenal growth recorded in the PND segment, handset based personal navigation solutions are expected to grow by 86 percent year-on-year. [Read more…]

Vmobile Selects Allround’s Roaming Management System

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Allround, a leading supplier in the global roaming market is pleased to announce another major client of its Roaming Management system – Vee Networks Limited, trading as Vmobile Nigeria, one of the fastest growing operators in the country. In this highly competitive market Allround’s uniquely competitive price structure and close operator cooperation were vital to winning the tender.

“The tender was awarded to Allround based on the company’s reputation, high quality software, competitive pricing and many implementations both in the region and globally. Vendors had to demonstrate excellence in all categories, including system functionality, scalability, implementation and support. The awarding of the tender demonstrates Allround’s ability to excel in all these areas,” says Ayodele Adeboye, Vmobile’s Chief Billing Officer.

Nigeria represents a new addition to the expanding list of African countries, where Allround’s highly reliable TAP Solution allows Vmobile to introduce new services quickly to the market to get ahead of its competitors. It enables the management of all roaming aspects with unlimited operator connections and ensures Vmobile is always “TAP-to-date”. [Read more…]

telSPACE Selects Smartpath Solution by Trilibis Mobile

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telSPACE , an innovative provider of multi-service billing, rating, and customer care software solutions for the MVNO industry, today announced its selection of the SmartPathTM solution by Trilibis Mobile. This choice will accelerate telSPACE’s plan to offer data services that will dramatically enhance the customer’s experience with their mobile phones. These applications will work hand in hand with its data strategy launch powered by Wireless Services Corporation.

Paris Holt, telSPACE’s Chief Executive says, “The final piece to the puzzle has been put in place and we have now started development on what we believe will be the most comprehensive suite of cellular phone applications ever assembled. Each of our 27 MVNO clients will be able to customize this phone based application to fit their exact target demographic. Our goal is to revolutionize the way our MVNOs are positioned in the marketplace and provide customers with so much more functionality and utility than they have today.”

telSPACE has created a system that allows any company to add communications to their product line and become an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). The system comprises a comprehensive back office network, including all operations functions such as customer activation, carrier procurement, fulfillment, billing and rating, MIS reporting, customer service and soon data all integrated into one ubiquitous operating platform. telSPACE effectively uses the internet to automate the complex customer acquisition process, thereby allowing its clients to instantly penetrate new markets or expand service offerings. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions Nominated for World Billing Awards 2006

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Azure Solutions, the revenue assurance company, has been named as a finalist in three categories for the World Billing Awards 2006. The categories that Azure has been short-listed for are: ‘Overall Best Contribution to Billing’, ‘Most Innovative Billing Product’ and ‘Best Revenue Assurance/ Management Project’.

Azure’s Certo 2 product, the latest version of its automated revenue assurance solution, was nominated as a finalist in the ‘Most Innovative Billing Product’ category. Certo 2 helps operators detect, analyse and correct revenue-leakage problems in real-time and has already been implemented by several customers since its launch in January 2006. [Read more…]

COSMOTE Romania Upgrades Billing System with LHS BSCS 8

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LHS, a provider for telecommunications and billing software, announces that mobile operator COSMOTE Romania, member of the COSMOTE Group, selected LHS’ billing and customer care BSCS 8 system to replace its previous legacy system, on the basis of its proven marketing and pricing capabilities. The new billing system was installed to support COSMOTE Romania’s dynamic growth plans.

Christos Christopoulos, COSMOTE Romania IT Director stated: “COSMOTE is pleased to once again collaborate with LHS for the BSCS brand, which has a track record of excellent performance and proven reliability. Through LHS’ software, COSMOTE Romania is able to effectively implement promotional campaigns and promote its services to all its prepaid and postpaid customers”.

COSMOTE Romania, member of the COSMOTE Group, began commercial operations in December 2005 with the aim to make mobile telephony accessible to all. To this end, the company continuously expands its advanced products and services portfolio, introducing new voice, data and content value added services. [Read more…]

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Axiom Systems Completes Integration With Alcatel 5620 Service Management

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Axiom Systems, a leader in Service Fulfilment software for telecommunications, today announced that its AXIOSS® for IP Services solution is now integrated with the Alcatel 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). This integration will allow Alcatel and Axiom Systems customers to automate the service fulfilment of mass volume orders whilst reducing the cost of ownership of those new service products and their variants from component design to rapid service creation and product launch. All of these benefits occur whilst service revenues increase.

As an Alcatel Connected Partner, Axiom Systems participates in a rigorous certification process to ensure that its products are integrated with Alcatel’s IP service routing portfolio in order to simplify introduction of the solution within customer networks, and thus speed implementation of carrier-grade service provisioning. [Read more…]

ACE*COMM Recognized for Best Customer Success by Billing World

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, announced today that it has received the ‘Best Customer Success’ award from TeleStrategies, the publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine, at the Sixth Annual Excellence Awards reception on May 3 at the Billing & OSS World 2006 Conference in Miami. Published 12 times per year, Billing World & OSS Today is the most widely read magazine by the back-office software decision makers in the telecommunications industry.

“Billing World & OSS Today magazine is proud to present the 2006 Excellence Awards to the companies who are driving innovation and positive ROI in the billing and OSS/BSS industries,” said Jill Morgan, publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine. “The Best Customer Success category is self explanatory, but it should be noted that it was the single most competitive category in this year’s competition. This year’s winner – ACE*COMM – is a company we have seen go through many changes and challenges over the years in the industry. It is a company that has re-invented itself and thrived, but without ever abandoning its core expertise. What impressed us the most about ACE*COMM was the innovative way in which it has taken technology that is traditionally buried behind the scenes and given it relevance on the front lines.”

The Best Customer Success award recognizes outstanding industry achievement for real-life benefits achieved as part of a customer deployment. ACE*COMM’s Market Maker(TM) product – part of the ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) suite – was recognized for dramatically improving a Tier 1 cable operator’s ability to position its marketing resources to achieve higher quality upsell opportunities and close new customers. At the same time the operator was able to develop the information required to match marketing efforts with available network capacity. [Read more…]

Maroc Telecom Selects Atos Origin and Comptel for Automated Broadband Delivery

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Atos Origin, an international IT service provider and Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory announced today that they had been selected by Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s leading telecoms operator to automate DSL services across Morocco. Maroc Telecom provides fixed, broadband internet and mobile services across all regions in Morocco.

The Comptel® Fulfilment solution will be integrated into Maroc Telecom’s OSS by Atos Origin to automate the activation of DSL services to Maroc Telecom’s customers. This will meet the rapid growth in demand for broadband in Morocco. [Read more…]

Yankee Group and ACE*COMM to Present on Data Integrity Management at TeleManagement World Nice 2006 Conference

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC) today announced that it will be presenting with Yankee Group at TeleManagement World Nice 2006, Wednesday, May 17th, in Nice, France. TeleManagement World brings together noted business and technical leaders from both service providers and their suppliers to discuss and debate the issues, challenges and solutions facing the management of next generation networks and services. [Read more…]

Alcatel Selects Syndesis OSS for Triple Play and Next-Generation Services

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Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) announced today the signing of a global partnership agreement enabling Alcatel to offer Syndesis’ carrier-grade suite as part of its Operation Support Systems (OSS) portfolio. Combined with Alcatel integration services, service providers will be able to rapidly launch revenue generating next-generation services such as Triple/Quad Play, IPTV and VoIP. The integrated offering focuses on the end-to-end service delivery across access, aggregation and core, including subscriber-centric activation and discovery, in multi-vendor networks.

“This partnership with Alcatel is based on a shared strategy, joint vision and proven customer success,” added John Lochow, President and CEO of Syndesis. “Thanks to our complementary competencies, service providers are leveraging a rapidly growing subscriber base and profiting like never before from their network investments. Subscriber-centric activation and first-time-right service delivery, built on product-based software solutions, are paramount to delivering a truly differentiated and unified communications experience. We are thrilled that our partnership with Alcatel enables service providers globally to benefit from these solutions and acknowledge their vote of confidence in our proven, industry-leading service delivery suite.”

Alcatel has embedded Syndesis’ award-winning IP Triple Play service delivery management solutions into its industry-leading suite of next generation network offerings. The solution is proven to dramatically reduce the time and costs associated with the installation of IP networks and the delivery of feature-rich IP-based video, voice and data services. [Read more…]

Telenet Deploys MetaSolv for Digital TV Activation

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MetaSolv Software, Inc., a leader in comprehensive operations support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that Telenet has successfully deployed MetaSolv’s convergent service activation platform for Digital TV services. Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium – including cable television, high speed internet and telephony services – with over 1.8 million subscribers.

Telenet’s converged services require a converged cross-domain activation platform – a single order of complex services can trigger activation and configuration requirements in multiple domains, including POTS, VoIP, Digital TV, and DSL-Broadband, all of which are supported by MetaSolv’s activation solution. [Read more…]

VoluBill launches Track em Data Intelligence solution for Next Generation and 3G services

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VoluBill, a provider of flexible data charging solutions to telecoms operators, today formally launched its “Track em” product, a sophisticated, real time, network monitoring solution that provides operators with never before available detail on customer activity on their network.

“Imagine being able to identify who the top 5000 users of Skype are on your network.” said John Aalbers, CEO at VoluBill, “Track em makes this option possible for operators. Our cutting edge solution provides the innovation to enable operators to target specific users with creative marketing campaigns or service bundles and help fight against diminishing revenues.” added Aalbers.

The information collected by VoluBill’s solution can help operators detect and act upon network usage that potentially undermines their overall profitability. This is achieved by giving operators the power to restrict, block or charge users for specific traffic at a premium rate or on a subscription basis as well as individually market services in ways that specifically reflect a customer’s unique usage pattern. [Read more…]

AOL Selects AXIOSS from Axiom Systems For Their Provision of Broadband and IP Services in France

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Axiom Systems today announced that, with their partners Inoven and Accenture, the AXIOSS platform has been chosen to enable the design, creation and delivery of all new IP and broadband services for AOL in France. AOL, assisted by Inoven for the Program Management and Accenture, will use AXIOSS as a single standardized OSS platform to support their current applications and shorten the time between new service conception and delivery to the market. [Read more…]

Greece Carrier Lannet Chooses Intec Convergent Billing

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Intec, a supplier of BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, announced today that Lannet, a major alternate provider offering fixed telephony and internet ADSL services to retail and corporate customers in Greece, has gone live with Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView). The news follows the recent announcement of a win for Intec Convergent Billing with a major carrier in the Asia Pacific region.

“We needed to replace an out-dated, unsupported retail billing system if we were to have the capability to quickly react to the market,” said Fotis Tsitsirigos, IT Manager Lannet. “The major advantage of Intec Convergent Billing is that it is a robust, capable platform that allows us to move from traditional telephony models and freely develop whatever we imagine or need to best respond, lead and compete. Following an impressive implementation with zero delays or problems, we are now cost-effective and independent with no necessity for outsourcing or external consultancy when responding to commercial challenges. This is critical for a relatively small company with limited resources.”

Lannet operates in a crowded, deregulated market of ten alternate providers and the national fixed telephony company, OTE. With a fast-growing customer base, the company is successfully pursuing a new market share expansion plan of new products and services backed up by loyalty programmes, network development, investment, acquisition and alliances. The Lannet vision is to be the leading challenger in fixed telephony and broadband services. [Read more…]

HP Deepens New Generation OSS Commitment with Support for OSS/J and TMF Standards

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HP today announced its participation in a number of industry initiatives designed to help telecom companies manage voice and data networks more efficiently through New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) technologies. The HP Integrated Service Management (ISM) platform is HP’s Operational Support System (OSS) offering. It uses a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate operations and business support systems to help carriers and operators manage networks and services.

HP is enhancing HP ISM with functionality from the OSS through Javaâ„¢ initiative (OSS/J). This initiative focuses on the adoption of standards-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and design guidelines for the development of component-based OSS systems. OSS/J technologies provide the foundation for unifying legacy systems and new applications quickly and at low cost. [Read more…]

Telarix Announces New Corporate Strategy

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Telarix, Inc., a provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced a new corporate strategy designed to combine its award winning interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions with a service-focused offering to provide the industry’s most comprehensive solution — uniquely tailored to address service providers’ most critical business issues.

As part of the new strategy, Telarix will offer its interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions over a Flexible Delivery Platform, which includes a new hosted offering called iXTools ASP(TM). Now carriers can choose either an outsourced, hosted or traditional software license solution to improve revenue assurance, optimize routing, manage complex agreements and facilitate financial traffic management.

“Offering a solution such as this in both a software-based and a services-based model helps tailor the end product to meet a carrier’s exact needs,” commented Paul Hughes, Vice President of Communications Software Strategies with the Yankee Group. “Telarix’s Flexible Delivery Platform strategy demonstrates the company’s commitment to meeting global communications carriers’ specific OSS/BSS strategies, each of which may differ based on past investment history and technology acquisition and usage preferences, and bolsters the company’s position in the global OSS/BSS space.”

This unprecedented offering provides traditional global incumbents, emerging service providers, and dominant regional players of fixed, mobile and VoIP services a comprehensive solution tailored to their specific business environment and requirements. Three of the world’s five largest telecom providers already depend on iXTools to optimize their interconnect business. [Read more…]